February 19, 2015

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Wage tax contribs fly past PILOTs Penn generated $106 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Student protests against the University’s PILOTs policy — or lack thereof — have brought Penn’s relationship

with the City of Brotherly Love under public scrutiny. Yet, these protests themselves have garnered backlash for their failure to acknowledge Penn’s role as one of the largest tax contributors in Philadelphia.

In December, students involved with Penn’s Student Labor Action Project disrupted President Amy Gutmann’s

holiday party and demanded that the University pay six million dollars in Payments In Lieu of Taxes — or PILOTs — to improve local Philadelphia public schools. This protest was part of a push for PILOTs that has gained traction over the past three years, said Lee Huang, senior vice president and principal of Econsult Solutions, a

firm that was paid by the University to defend their anti-PILOTs position.

SLAP’s movement has received backlash from those who believe that Penn already contributes significantly to the community. Financially, with 34,000 employees, Penn is the largest SEE WAGE TAXES PAGE 7

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Embracing her in ner

Feminista Activist alum is known for her social media campaigns

CLARE CONNHAUGHTON Staff Reporter

Yesterday evening, Penn alumna Feminista Jones spoke at the Kelly Writers House’s Feminism/s series.

Feminista is a social worker, black feminist and community activist. She has over 44,000 followers on Twitter and is responsible for creating hashtags that sparked global attention like #YouOkSis to address street harassment and the National Moment of Silence #NMOS14 to address issues of police brutality.

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The Daily Pennsylvanian: Why did you choose Penn and what was your time at Penn like?

Feminista Jones: Well, I had actually taken a year off from college before coming to Penn and my high school guidance counselor helped me figure out where I was going to go and she was like “Penn would be great for you,” so I decided to come here. I ended up double majoring in Africana Studies and Sociology, and I did some minor work in English and Women’s Studies. My time here was really life changing. I know this sounds really cliche to say, but I feel like I found myself here. I got involved

Video of interview wiith Feminista Jones

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Faculty, researchers criticize Penn’s sexual violence management Criticism includes a letter written by Penn Law profs SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

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As Penn Law School faculty members question the fairness of the new procedures for managing sexual assault complaints, researchers and educators from across the country continue to criticize the sexual violence campus climate survey that Penn will administer in the spring.

After Penn signed on to participate in a sexual assault survey run by the Association of American Universities last month, a group of experts met in Madison, Wis. last week to draft an alternative survey to help universities assess sexual violence on campus.

“Our goal is for the entire process to be transparent and scientifically sound, and that is not the impression we got from the AAU survey,” SEE SEXUAL ASSAULT PAGE 5

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Provost: mental health recs to be pursued ‘with vigor’ Task force members say setting a timeline to implement recs is not their responsibility ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Reporter

Despite student concerns that the new mental health recommendations do not have an established timeline for implementation, members of the task force said at Wednesday’s

University Council meeting that setting a timeline was not their responsibility. Provost Vincent Price said the University would pursue meeting the task force recommendations “with vigor.”

In a room of student leaders and administrators at the meeting, the Mental Health Task Force presented its findings — a set of recommendations released on Monday that followed six student suicides in the

span of 15 months.

A major student concern with the report is its lack of a concrete timeline for making improving the mental wellbeing of Penn students.

Although some recommendations were given completion goals — the committee said they will develop a web portal to centralize resources as well as a complementary app by next Fall — others have no set date of completion.

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The vagueness of the recommendations may be attributed to the task force’s focus on “cultural rather than structural change,” as described by co-chair of the task force Anthony Rostain. In the U. Council meeting, the other co-chair of the task force Rebecca Bushnell said they had found that Penn’s culture is characterized by perfectionism and competition.

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Phila. school board approves five new charter schools School Reform Commission rejects 34 applications JENNIFER WRIGHT Deputy News Editor

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Signs were confiscated, protesters were led out by police and both charter school applicants and opponents made last minute appeals on Wednesday evening.

At the peak of the testimony, about 150 people filled the auditorium during a special meeting of the commission to announce the decision at the headquarters of the School District of Philadelphia. Just five of the 39 charter applications were granted by Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission (SRC). The city already has 84 charter schools in operation.

Applications approved were for Independence Charter School West, KIPP Dubois Charter School, MaST Community Charter School, Mastery Charter School - Gillespie Campus and TECH Friere Charter School.

None of the three applications for charter schools proposed within Penn’s zip code were approved. Penn alum Michael Karp and his group proposed a high school counterpart to their existing 1-8 charter school near Penn,

but their application was denied in a 3-2 vote. Karp said he was “very disappointed” with the decision.

“These people know I do a good job, it’s really sad for me,” Karp said referring to the SRC. “I was hoping that they would have done more than they did.”

The application for the Philadelphia Music and Dance Academy Charter School, proposed to be located in the former West Philadelphia High School building as a collaboration with musician Lionel Richie, was also denied.

Any of the rejected applicants are free to appeal the decision to the Charter Appeals Board — a product of a stipulation tacked onto the $2-a-pack cigarette tax legislation passed for Philadelphia last September. Karp said he and his team plan to appeal on their application.

This is the first time in seven years that the district held an opencall for charter applications. The cigarette tax also included a provision that mandated the school district accept charter applications yearly.

During the meeting, district security confiscated signs that attendees had brought with them, something that does not normally happen. Several protesters were led out of the auditorium following the first school approval after

Feb. 6 | FRAUD

A 25-year old affiliated man reported that unauthorized withdrawals had been made from his bank account on Jan. 28.

Feb. 7 | FIRE

At 1:09 a.m., police reported to the Beta Theta Pi house at 3900 Spruce Street after a fire alarm went off. The residents had started a fire in the fireplace which they extinguished before the Philadelphia Fire Department arrived at the scene.

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Action United members held signs in opposition to the 39 new charter school applications discussed at the Philadelphia School Reform Comission meeting on Wednesday.

police in the room threatened arrest if the crowd did not disperse.

After each applicant had three minutes to speak in front of the commission, pre-registered public comment followed. Penn alumna Helen Gym, who recently announced her candidacy for City Council, told the SRC that for them to consider the “reckless expansion of charters” would be

“not only morally repugnant, it is economically insane,” in light of many of the financial strains put on the district and schools due to the budget deficits over the past several years.

Penn sociology professor Melissa Wilde, a Jackson Elementary School parent, encouraged the SRC to deny all 40 applications. “It would trouble me as a sociologist,

Feb. 7 | PUBLIC DRUNKEDNESS

At 9:55 p.m., police arrived at the 1300 block of N. Pennington Road where they found three women involved in a fight. Police separated the women, but the intoxicated 22-year-old suspect continued to shout and grab at the hair of another one of the women and was arrested.

Feb. 8 | FRAUD

An affiliated 23-year-old man reported that unauthorized charges had been made on his credit card the day before at 9:34 p.m.

but it would bother me more as mom,” she said citing the cuts that schools faced due to budget shortfalls. “Please, don’t move us further away from our goals by approving any of these applications,” she said to the SRC. KIPP charter school student Danielle Freeman spoke about how she struggled with discipline issues throughout middle school,

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but is now at the top of her class in high school with the support of her “family” at KIPP, despite struggling with homelessness.

“KIPP has given me the option to have a better life,” she said.

In a surprise move in late January, the Philadelphia School Partnership, a pro-charter nonprofit, offered the district $25 million to defray the costs of opening more charters — an attempt to address one of the main criticisms of opening new charter schools.

The district has made no decision on whether they will accept the sum. Spokesman Fernando Gallard told the Philadelphia Inquirer that half a million dollars is closer to the amount that would have been needed to decrease financial strain on the district if they were to open up 15,000 charter seats.

In the first week in February, the SRC tried to put off the vote until June by asking applicants to sign a waiver allowing them more time to decide past the state-mandated 75 days following the first pubic hearing. With only a few applicants signing the waiver, the district went ahead with the original plan for Wednesday’s vote.

The five applications granted received three-year charter agreements with conditions which have to be agreed upon by May 31, 2015.

Feb. 8 | ROBBERY

At 11:11 p.m., an unaffiliated 22-year-old woman reported having been robbed by a man who grabbed her neck and told her that he had a knife on 200 South 38th Street. He escaped with her money. The suspect was not arrested.

At 7:50 p.m., an affiliated 23-year-old woman reported having been robbed at gunpoint on the 4100 block of Pine Street.

The suspect allegedly told the woman to give him her money and then get on the ground. He escaped in a van traveling eastward on Pine Street. No arrest was made.

Feb. 8 | DUI

Feb. 8 | OTHER

At 2:36 a.m., police arrested an unaffiliated 26-year-old man on 40th and Chesnut.

The suspect was driving the wrong way on a one-way street, had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alchohol.

At 3:30 a.m., a fire alarm was pulled at DuBois College House on 3900 Walnut Street. Philadelphia Fire Department responded and determined that it was a false alarm.

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Rostain also referenced the national findings that 54.7 percent of undergraduates felt “overwhelming anxiety” in the past year.

When asked at what point a timeline would be made for implementing the recommendations, Bushnell said, “The task force is now handing off the recommendations to the various bodies that are responsible for taking over [them], and others will then take responsibility for finishing the work.”

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Proposals that did not specify completion goals include educating students about taking a leave of absence, educating faculty about Counseling and Psychological Services resources, identifying signs of distress in students and providing mental health training to the leaders of student groups.

Some of the recommendations made by the task force involve working with insurance policies, which can “take longer,” Price said.

“It doesn’t serve anyone’s interest to establish a timeline for the sake of announcing a timeline,” he

added.

School of Veterinary Medicine student Jonathan Ferrari addressed the council about disproportionate access to mental wellness resources, particularly CAPS. First year veterinary students are six times more likely to be depressed and are twice as likely to commit suicide than the average person, he said.

Lack of flexibility in CAPS appointments makes access for veterinary students difficult. A survey conducted by the Vet School’s student government found half of

veterinary students attempting to schedule appointments with CAPS were unable to do so because of conflicting course schedules, Ferrari said.

Expanding student financial aid was another issue students brought up at the meeting. Two undergraduate students urged the University to expand financial aid to cover summer classes and study abroad opportunities. Students pursuing dual degrees are particularly likely to need to take summer courses and could face financial conflict, they said.

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Provost Vincent Price was among those in attendance at Wednesday’s University Council meeting.

Far from home, Penn students celebrate Lunar New Year Penn students find new ways to ring in New Year ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

While most Penn students rang in the new year on Jan. 1, last night a number of students waited for the clock to strike midnight and for the Lunar New Year to begin.

Though many consider the holiday the Chinese New Year, the Lunar New Year is also celebrated by the Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese cultures.

Similar to the Gregorian New Year celebrated on Jan. 1, the Lunar New Year is a holiday of thankfulness and good wishes for the upcoming year. On a holiday traditionally spent with family — with firecrackers, fish and red envelopes — Penn students who celebrate the Lunar New Year have found new ways to mark the day.

Last year, College sophomore Danielle Pi’s parents flew in from China to have a family dinner with her and her sister. But not this year.

“This year, my parents aren’t really feeling the whole flyingacross-the-world thing so I’ll probably just Skype in while they’re having their big Chinese New Year dinner with my extended family,” Pi said.

College junior Kristen Kelly said she cooks for her friends to try to recreate the tradition of having a

family dinner.

“I tend to do a lot of Chinese cooking around the week of the New Year,” Kelly said. “I guess I start to feel nostalgic, or maybe a little guilty for not cooking more often.”

Some clubs on campus offer small dinners to mark the new year. Both the Chinese Student Association and the Pan-Asian American Community House hold intimate gatherings. Tomorrow, the Wharton China Association will hold a festive dinner with a dumpling eating competition and

traditional red envelopes.

The Asian Pacific Student Coalition, however, has found a less traditional way to celebrate. They will be holding a concert at the Penn Museum tonight, featuring Asian-American rappers Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina.

Regardless of how those who celebrate the Lunar New Year chose to spend the day, they will all have their families in mind.

“This is a holiday I will associate with spending time with my family,” said Wharton and College freshman Emily Zhen.

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OPINION Inviting Quaker pride

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 19 131st Year of Publication

MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor HOLDEN MCGINNIS Sports Editor

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wo weeks ago, they invaded Commons.

Clad in bright red lanyards and clinging to their parents — they’d probably cling a lot tighter if they knew about the latest wave of dining hall health reports; want some pink slime with that ice cream? — Penn’s latest crop of accepted early decision students bombarded campus for Connected Quaker Days.

They were small. They were scared. They wanted to know what the hell “the Quad thing” was. More importantly, they were the largest early decision class in Penn’s history.

According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 54.9 percent of the Class of 2019 has been filled with ED students. That’s up from a 53.7 percent ED fill rate for my freshman class. The number of early decision students accepted has increased dramatically over the years, with just 45 percent of the Class of 2008 comprised of ED.

THE DANALYST | Penn should continue to accept high percentages of ED students The class of 2020 will likely feature a hefty amount of ED students.

And well it should.

Penn should prioritize accepting students who are genuinely excited about our school. Early decision students know that Penn appeals to them, and they have

and interested students, but we should also reward those who can truly see themselves here.

I’ve written before about Penn’s inferiority complex.

We follow the rankings. We watch ourselves. It kills us that Penn doesn’t get instant name recognition — person-

to go to Penn since our early years of high school — maybe earlier — and those who were bitter about not getting into Stanford. As someone who’s loved Penn since my junior year of high school, I have a hard time stomaching groans about how we’re “not HYP” or how we’ll never catch up

The University should work on promoting its early decision policies to lower-income communities. Penn should work with organizations like QuestBridge, which works with high-achieving, low-income students, and others that help underserved groups through the college admissions process.” already crafted a vision of their lives here. They’ll work to generate a Penn-specific culture. A school as huge as Penn shouldn’t have a concrete vision of itself, but having such a large cluster of a student body bursting with Penn love enhances our environment. Admissions should try to find the most qualified

ally, I think it’s nice that we have the ego take-down when my dentist asks me how I’m enjoying State College — but it grates on all of us after a while. During NSO, I surrounded myself with a cluster of kids who knew each other from ED days. There was a marked difference between those of us who have wanted

in the race to drop admissions percentages like they’re hot.

Too many Penn students take our university for granted. We need to appreciate Penn in its own right — an easy first step is to increase the number of students who already do that.

Of course, I’m biased. I was lucky to live near enough to Penn to tour it. I stepped

onto Locust, and I knew it was home. Not everyone can feel that instant connection — and more importantly, not enough high school students have access to it. The University should work on promoting its Early Decision policies to lower-income communities. Penn should work with organizations like QuestBridge, which works with high-achieving, low-income students, and others that help underserved groups through the college admissions process. Moreover, there’s a common misperception that accepted ED students have to attend Penn even if their financial aid awards are not satisfactory. That’s just not true. I know of someone who was accepted to Penn ED, but didn’t receive adequate financial aid and decided to attend another school. While I wouldn’t call that a success story, it’s proof that Penn keeps its word.

Many of my friends were Regular Decision, and they absolutely love Penn. Their

DANI BLUM Quaker pride isn’t any less valid or real than that of ED students. But those who already feel the pull towards Locust Walk should be rewarded. There’s a benefit to surrounding ourselves with those who are proud to be at Penn — not wary that they didn’t get into whatever their other first choice Ivy was.

Let’s embrace those who embrace Penn.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

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Why you should vote yes to divest

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limate change is scary. 2014 was the hottest year on record. Scientific predictions of climate change impacts are being realized as we encounter more extreme storms, rising sea levels and devastating droughts. These facts can be disempowering, and I think many of us — especially the youth who must inherit an increasingly unlivable climate — have felt the discomfort of wondering whether such destructive changes can ever be stopped.

Yet very soon there will be a concrete opportunity for Penn students to take action against the climate crisis. Next week, all undergraduates will have the opportunity to vote in the Nominations & Elections Committee referendum on fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment.

GUEST COLUMN BY PETER THACHER Penn’s $9.6 billion endowment is partially invested in the fossil fuel industry, defined as coal, oil and gas companies. The rationale for asking Penn to remove, or divest, that money is that these corporations are responsible for pollution that is inflicting se-

leukemia and other cancers as a result of living near oil refineries as has happened in Houston. We do not want wildlife and the natural environment to be harmed as a result of industrial accidents, such as the 50,000-gallon oil spill near the Yellowstone

not want, however, so much about this referendum and divestment is about what we do want. We want our sources of electricity to be independent of health sacrifices that must be made of communities living near coal mines or natural gas rigs. We want a

In addition to what we do not want, however, so much about this referendum and divestment is about what we do want.“ vere harm on our people and our climate. We know why we want to divest from them. We do not want people’s drinking water to be contaminated due to fracking as is happening throughout Pennsylvania.

We do not want children to be at increased risk of getting

River in Montana last month.

We do not want low-lying countries to have to lose the land that they’ve lived on for thousands of years. And we do not want to thrust our climate and all that it sustains into chaos.

In addition to what we do

less corrupt political system free of the huge influence exerted by oil executives such as the Koch brothers, which can make them vastly more powerful than ordinary voters. We want an economy that meets people’s needs while caring for our ecosystems

and natural resources. All of these things are intimately connected to the transition away from fossil fuels and our need to divest from them.

As we close the door on using fossil fuels we open doors to a plethora of improvements to our society.

It is true that we continue to use fossil fuels for our energy and are dependent on them for our everyday life.

Yet that is the case precisely because of the industry’s immense power over our political processes and institutions, which are often unwilling to push for the changes needed to the status quo due to their conflicts of interest. We need world leaders to step up and take action against climate change, and by pushing our universities to divest from these corporations we build pressure that deprives these

companies of their influence.

This will allow us to finally change the current state of affairs of using these destructive forms of energy through political action.

Divestment is about making our universities and institutions take a stand on major issues. It is vitally important that Penn be on the right side of solving the climate crisis and to end its support of the extreme practices of the fossil fuel industry. Vote yes next week if you agree that it is time we move decisively to avert catastrophe and invest in the just and sustainable future we all need and know is possible.

PETER THACHER is a College sophomore from St. Louis studying urban studies. His email address is thacherp@ sas.upenn.edu.

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Hack4Impact promotes nonprofit work through tech Two Penn seniors design app to bridge gap between developers and nonprofits GIANNI MASCIOLI Contributing Reporter

Two seniors are vying to save nonprofits thousands of dollars.

Co-founded by Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari and Engineering senior Ali Altaf, Hack4Impact connects student developer talent with nonprofit organizations free of charge.

It works closely with groups in and outside of Philadelphia, and has a model that may be applied beyond Penn.

For College sophomore Sarah Simon Hack4Impact was the place to go to develop an app central to her nonprofit, the Interactive College Access Network.

“We talked for probably three or four weeks about what we wanted and worked through drafts of the app,” Simon said. “We were looking at app developers that would’ve

cost us $25,000, and that’s just not money that we have, and it’s not money that a lot of nonprofits have, particularly in their nascent stages,” Simon added.

In addition, Hack4Impact has worked on a much more local scale, developing a mapping app for the Food Policy Advisory Council of the Mayor’s Office, in coordination with the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger.

“The process was just so clean and easy between the developers and the organizers,” Food Policy Advisory Council Coordinator at the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability Hannah Chatterjee said.

“We’ve never seen a tool like this before, and it’s just really exciting for us that all of these community resources can be consolidated into one location.”

All of the students in the club volunteer their time and spend about 60 hours per semester working on their projects. The group currently has a membership of 22 developers and project managers

that work on semester-long projects and coordinates closely with local and national clients. Already, Hack4Impact has worked on a project with Kiva, a large social impact organization.

“We have some incredible people in the club, and it seems like everyone who is part of it is very intrinsically motivated to do good with their time,” Altaf said.

Maheshwari first conceived of the idea while working with Social Impact Consulting at Penn during his first years at Penn. “There was this big need for nonprofits and social impact organizations for technical help,” he said.

Then, last April, he met Altaf, and they began brainstorming concepts for the new group.

“When I came to Penn and I switched over to computer science, one of the things that I thought was missing was the idea of promoting social impact through tech,” Altaf said. With initiative on their part and support from the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, the group

launched early last fall.

Looking forward, Hack4Impact is focused on its own establishment and growth at Penn, but also has ambitions beyond the ivory tower.

Altaf and Maheshwari, who plan to move to San Francisco this year, hope to move Hack4Impact into other schools around the nation and build a professional network on top of their existing infrastructure.

Most recently, the pair applied for one of the President’s Engagement Prizes created by President Amy Gutmann to secure additional financial support.

Though they recognize their own limits, they see the potential for Hack4Impact to grow beyond GIANNI MASCIOLI | CONTRIBUTING WRITER what it currently is and serve a much larger set of clients and aims. Members of Hack4Impact met during a weekly work session at the “Tech is not always a solution to Weiss Tech House in the Levine Building.​ every problem,” Maheshwari said.

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said Jennifer Freyd, a University of Oregon psychology professor who co-wrote critical letters of the AAU survey and participated in the summit.

Earlier this week, about one fourth of Penn Law faculty members wrote a critical letter in response to Penn’s new policy for investigating and adjudicating complaints of sexual assault. In addition to weakening the standards for determining that a sexual assault incident has occurred, the new procedures fail to give the accused proper legal protection, according to the authors of the letter.

Noting the letter was signed by only 16 of the 64 full-time members of the Penn Law faculty, Penn’s Director of Media Relations Ronald Ozio sent the following email statement in response to the criticism.

“In considering the appropriate process for resolving complaints of sexual assault against students who are members of our community, we consulted broadly with members of our community — including the Law School faculty, and closely reviewed federal regulations and guidance. We developed a process that we believe to be fair and balanced, that will both provide a sensitive and effective process for those wishing to make a complaint, while actively protecting the rights of the accused.”

Though the AAU survey was

declined by over two dozen universities, Penn has decided to administer the $85,000 survey, which will anonymously question students about their sexual violence experiences and their knowledge of campus resources. Building off critiques of the AAU survey’s transparency and scientific merit, the meeting in Madison — called the Madison Summit for Campus Climate and Sexual Misconduct — provided a forum for researchers, educators and student affairs and Title IX administrators to collaborate on the development of a free, open-source survey centered on scientific approaches and accessibility.

“We’re creating a survey that uses well-established, reliable scientific measures that have been proven valid from literature and research, in contrast to other campus climate surveys that do not have people with particular expertise in these types of sexual violence and victimization,” said Lilia Cortina, a University of Michigan psychology and women’s studies professor, who attended the Madison Summit.

The AAU survey continues to be critiqued for its short development timeline, its nontransparent peer review process and its design of publishing only aggregate results, according to Freyd. But Penn is confident the AAU survey will benefit its understanding and management of sexual violence on campus, especially as AAU has incorporated feedback and suggestions from the 28 participating schools including

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Ann Speicher, AAU’s associate vice president for public affairs, emphasized that the survey has improved since responding to administrator and student focus groups, as well as from hiring nationally recognized experts on sexual assault.

“AAU and Westat [the hired research firm] made significant changes based on follow-up discussions and months of additional deliberations, and the survey instrument has been vetted with the AAU survey team and Westat experts,” Speicher said. “We expect that the aggregate data and analysis will shed new light on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault and misconduct […] and will provide a larger, more complete picture of the many issues involved in addressing this critical and complex issue.”

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with a lot of activist causes, particularly for affirmative action.

DP: Activism is an important part of Penn’s culture here, there are lots of groups like SOUL, who have had rallies and have also gotten some viral media attention.

How would you compare the activism culture while you were at Penn to how it is today?

FJ: I think that even 20 years before I came, there was a huge culture of activism here at Penn, which kind of laid the groundwork for us. I love what I see here.

I love that people as young as 17, 18, freshmen that are coming in, they’re like “this is what we want to happen, this is the change we want to see, and we’re going to take steps to do that.” ... Today’s generation has social media, they have all of these other ways to get it out there. Back then, we didn’t have all of this, so nobody knew what we were doing unless it got writ-

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Advice from admissions experts on what to do next CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

For many early decision applicants, receiving a deferral is a confusing gray area between acceptance and rejection — but admissions experts say steps to take after deferral are anything but confusing.

Overwhelmingly, admissions insiders advise effective communication with a degree of moderation.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda suggested that deferred applicants contact the admissions office during the regular decision round with any updates to their applications — new awards, test scores or even additional letters of recommendation — though applicants should not exaggerate their accomplishments in an attempt to impress the admissions office.

“They can demonstrate their interest and update us with only one communication, however they would like to do that,” Furda said, emphasizing that each applicant should only reach out to the admissions office a single time after being deferred. “I just don’t want them to feel like they have to create some other persona.”

Acceptance rates for deferred early applicants are typically a few percentage points higher than overall regular decision acceptance rates, Furda added.

Levia Nahary, master college admissions counselor at IvyWise, agreed, recommending deferred applicants submit a “love letter” to the schools they hope to attend.

These letters should thank the school for reading the applicant’s materials, provide updates on the applicant’s accomplishments, express specific interest in some aspect of the school and restate the applicant’s commitment to attending.

“You’re declaring your undying love for the school that you applied early decision to,” Nahary said. “What you’re trying to do is communicate to the school that you have a deep-down

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connection.”

Nahary also highlighted the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and considering alternative options. “Stay healthy and sane about the process, recognize and consider that you have other options going out there,” she said.

However, Nahary warned against any kind of parental involvement in the communication process. “The universities appreciate when a student advocates for themselves much more so than when a parent speaks on their behalf,” she said. “I would strongly advise the applicant himself or herself to speak up.”

Because so many applicants who are deferred do not reach out to the admissions office, Nahary believes sending a letter makes a significant difference for applicants.

“All sorts of communication and contact are taken note of by the universities,” she added.

Wharton freshman Nayyir Ismail, who was deferred in the early round and then accepted in the regular round, took a different approach. He did not contact the admissions office after his deferral because he had already been accepted to another school.

However, he also believes applicants have something to gain by making an effort to communicate.

“If there is a significant improvement in your academic credentials, in your extracurricular credentials, then certainly you should take the time to write a letter,” he said. “That, in the long run, especially with the nine percent acceptance rate, might make a huge difference.”

Ismail echoed Furda’s and Nahary’s suggestion that deferred applicants should focus their attention on their other opportunities as well. “Maybe you want to focus your efforts somewhere else,” he added.

Students who applied early to the Class of 2019 and were deferred still have time to submit additional materials to the Office of Admissions. Admissions decisions for the regular round will be released on March 31 at 5 p.m.

Now the world can see what they’re doing, so I think that’s probably the biggest difference.

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ten about in local newspapers, but now the world can see what they’re doing, so I think that’s probably the biggest difference.

DP: Feminista Jones is obviously not your real name. What was the decision to use a pseudonym? What came first — the pseudonym or becoming an activist on social media?

FJ: I started using the name on my blog. I had a blog that was

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private employer in Philadelphia and generates eight percent of the total wage taxes, which are the single biggest source — almost half — of local tax revenues.

“Penn employees paid in almost 100 million dollars just for the year and about 62 million from University people and 37 million from health system people,” Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Stephen Golding said. In total, the University generated approximately $106 million in total tax revenue for the city in fiscal year 2014.

Penn’s impact reaches far beyond the city’s coffers. It makes the community safer through its work with the Division of Public Safety, which is the city’s largest police force, and saves the city money it would otherwise have to spend on increased policing, Executive Director of the Office of the Executive Vice President Anthony Sorrentino said. Penn also invests in the University City District, which provides supplemental safety and conducts municipal services including cleaning the streets, removing graffiti and jumpstarting cars.

In terms of economic development, the University has attracted

about sex-positive feminism, and I kind of just took on the moniker. I thought it was helpful because as my reach started to grow, and as more people started to follow me, it became a safety concern. I use a pseudonym to kind of try to protect my identity somewhat ... It’s [the pseudonym] also really just represent ing feminism. This is it. This is Feminista, this is who I am, and I don’t shy away from that.

DP: You tweeted sometime in the fall about how Penn not giving you alumni recognition because you use a pseudonym. Could you explain that situation?

FJ: There’s a Facebook group for Penn alumni and I wanted to share an article that I wrote for Time magazine about black women and domestic violence, and they didn’t want to share it because it wasn’t listed under my given name, or my name that’s connected with Penn. I was really disappointed in that because you have an artist like John Legend, who Penn is really proud to say graduated from Penn, but Legend is not his name — it’s a pseudonym that he uses. Yet, they can promote his work and support his work and there are others who have done the same ... It was really disappointing and it didn’t make a lot of sense to me.

DP: You said that you’ve been involved in activism your whole life. When did you decide social media was the best platform for you to use?

FJ: Well, I don’t know if social media is the best platform for me to use, which is why I do a lot of speaking, and I still go out and do lecturing, and teaching and things like that. Nothing beats connecting with people face to face. So I do a lot of traveling to schools. I think that social media helps with the reach. It’s helped with connecting to people that I may not have met in my travels.

DP: In December of 2014 at

Penn, there were two incidents on campus regarding race and gender.

The fraternity Phi Delta Theta had a Christmas card posing with a black sex doll that they claimed represented Beyonce, and they were under a lot of fire for that. The other incident was when an activist group went to Penn President Amy Gutmann’s holiday party and participated in a die-in, and Amy Gutmann joined them, and she received a lot of backlash from Penn Police. Do you have any comment on those situations?

FJ: I think that the fraternity issue is nothing new ... They have houses on Locust Walk, they’re allowed to do all of these other things, where they don’t have to include other people, so why is no one pushing against them and challenging them? I’m glad that there’s more sexual assault awareness on college campuses, but I think that this is nothing new.

I’m not at all surprised that they did something like that. It’s sad and it’s unfortunate that it continues to happen and that it’s very abusive to the black students, the black women here ... In terms of the die-in, I also know that there are students who felt that it wasn’t as sincere as President Gutmann wanted it to seem, but I think it was important to have that visual of an Ivy League university president joining in on something like that. In my day, when Judith Rodin was here, she had a Kwanzaa tree with little figurines of black people hanging from branches. We’ve come a long way in terms of presidential holiday parties. For people to have backlash against that, the woman is allowed to take whatever stance she wants to take.

DP: Are there any new projects coming up that you’re excited about? You had a book recently come out.

FJ: Yes, I released a book in October called “Push the Button”, and

Feminista Jones, a Penn alum, spoke at the Kelly Writers House on Wednesday.

over $1 billion in commercial development in University City over the past decade and these new dollars, in turn, generate taxes.

Finally, Penn has addressed the need for better public education in the city, which is SLAP’s primary goal, by investing in Penn Alexander Elementary School, teacher training for public schools and in the Lea Elementary School.

“There’s this big picture of what we do in Philadelphia that is complementary to the taxes that we do pay,” Sorrentino said. “We are a large stable employer in a city that needs to be dedicated to jobs and job growth to function, to generate that large piece of the pie.”

Still, some students and Philadelphia residents believe that Penn could be doing more to contribute to public education. Two hundred eighteen localities paid PILOTs in 28 states in 2011. Penn is one of two Ivy League universities that do not pay PILOTs. Huang argues that Penn is different from the rest of the Ivies in that it operates in a wage tax city.

“None of the other Ivies is in a municipality that relies on many taxes besides the property tax,” Huang said. “The only major tax that towns and cities in Massachusetts can levy is the property tax, so if Harvard doesn’t pay property tax, they’re really not making any

contribution to the city that they’re located in. If Penn doesn’t pay the property tax, they’re still paying tons of business tax, sales tax, wage tax and on and on.”

Jobs With Justice, SLAP’s labor-union backed national collaborator, however, points to the fact that Penn did in fact pay the city government PILOTs until 2000 and believes that, despite wage taxes, PILOTs, which directly fund the public education system, are crucial.

“Penn is a nonprofit, so it doesn’t pay taxes on any of its properties, and Penn is the biggest property owner in the city, so this a big reason why schools are closing and the district is really underfunded,” SLAP member and College senior Chloe Sigal said.

One of SLAP’s biggest complaints is that the University wholly ignores their side of the argument and denies that they have any validity or basis to complain.

Students from SLAP attempted to meet with Gutmann to discuss the PILOTs program, but the meeting never came to fruition. Instead they met with Vice President for Government and Community Affairs Jeffrey Cooper, who defended the University’s stance on PILOTs. A representative from Cooper’s office later denied the existence of

a PILOTs controversy, asserting that a few students were simply advocating for a proposal lacking government support.

“The strength of our comprehensive program of local initiatives is an enhancement to the quality of life in our city,” Cooper wrote in an email. “It yields more benefits than cash payments [PILOTs] that would have little impact on the fiscal health of Philadelphia and would reduce the resources available to support Penn’s core mission and local engagement activities.”

This controversy certainly isn’t the first Penn has faced regarding its relationship with the Philadelphia community. In the past, students have chastised Penn for causing real estate prices to soar by 600 percent from 1980 to 2013 through its expansion, while the University countered that this was the product of it making Philadelphia a safer and better place to live, specifically through the development of the Penn Alexander School.

Regardless of Penn’s tax contributions to the city, SLAP’s efforts are far from over.

“A campaign doesn’t just end when you hear ‘no’ from the institutions that you’re targeting or trying to reform,” Sigal said.

“There are definitely next steps that we are going to be taking.”

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are celebrated, black people always seem to be in turmoil, like they’re always being harmed ... My next step is I’m planning a women’s freedom march. I’m hoping to have it here in Philadelphia, if I can get the proper permits. It’s really the idea of having women of color come together, in a large city and be able to express our issues and our concerns, and kind of make demands of our government.

This Q and A has been lightly edited for clarity.

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W. SWIMMING | Penn aims sharp is being relaxed. We have a

achievable goals for the squad. “We’re a lot younger than some of the teams we’ll be facing,â€? Schnur said. “I see us finishing third fourth, or fifth. We’ve got a lot of work to do ‌ but we’ll go there and do our best.â€?

Apart from its veteran superstars, the Quakers will be looking for a big weekend from freshman Virginia Burns. The rookie standout has clocked several top-ten times this season, including an impressive 50.80 time in the 100 free and a 1:49.49 mark in the 200-yard freestyle. Sophomore Ellie Grimes has also chipped in with some impressive performances, as her 2:15.99 time in the 200-yard breaststroke is a Penn record and the third-best mark in the Ancient Eight this season.

So, after a season of spectacuILANA WURMAN | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR lar individual moments but largely Senior captain Taylor Sneed - Penn’s current record-holder in the 200-yard butterfly - will look to improve upon her devoid of surprising team successes, third-place finish in the event at last year’s Ivy Championships meet in this year’s competition at Harvard. the Red and Blue will get a chance to strut their stuff in front of the toughleague this season. Additionally, at the middle of the Ivy pack, they will and will almost certainly claim the est Ivy opponents for the next three last year’s Ivy Championship meet need Dong to be on top of her game. event’s top two spots, in some order. days and nights. For Penn women’s Dong swam on four of Penn’s recordHowever, the Red and Blue remain The Tigers have won 11 of the last 15 swimming, this weekend will desetting relays: the 200-yard medley, realistic in their expectations for the Ivy championships, with the Crim- termine whether they sink or swim 400-yard medley, 200-yard freestyle weekend’s results. Harvard — the son winning the other four. within the conference. and 400-yard freestyle. event’s hosts — and Princeton both With that reality taken into acLuckily, they seem to be quite If the Quakers are to move out of went undefeated in Ivy dual meets count, Schnur has set some more good at the latter.

lot of women who want to be great,�

Schnur said. “They just have to relax and trust the work they’ve done all year.�

Last season, the Red and Blue came in a middling fifth at Ivies. The Quakers’ top finishes came from then-freshman Rochelle Dong, who placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle and fifth in the 100-yard butterfly, and then-junior Taylor Sneed, who took third in the 200-yard butterfly and seventh in the 100-yard backstroke. Then-sophomore Lauren Church had a similarly impressive meet in the backstroke disciplines, touching in fourth in the 100 and sixth in the 200. All three swimmers must come up large in 2015 for the team, as Penn has relied heavily on its star power to pull off dual meet wins all season. “We have a lot of women who are capable of doing amazing things�

Schnur said. “It will be interesting to see who steps up at the meet.�

Dong, in particular, has emerged as a star during her sophomore campaign. The Carlsbad, Calif., native holds school records in the 50 free and 100 fly, and her 22.97 time in the former is the best in the entire Ivy

for fourth place in league

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After an up-and-down year in which it has hovered near the middle of the Ivy pack, Penn women’s swimming will look to come up big when it really matters — at this weekend’s Ivy Championships at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool.

This season, the Quakers (7-4, 3-4 Ivy) have had mixed results in dual meets, achieving both signature wins — a Nov. 7 blowout of conference rival Columbia — and frustrating defeats, such as a pair of losses to Princeton and a suited-up Cornell on Nov. 21. As a result, the Penn sits tied with Cornell for fourth place in the Ancient Eight.

However, coach Mike Schnur has been emphatic all season that the dual meets were little more than warmups for this weekend’s championships, where the Red and Blue will try to ignore their nerves and find out how exactly they stack up to their Ivy competition. “An even tougher task than being

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Although the youngsters are clearly the most formidable aspect of the Quakers’ lineup, they will have to rely on the experience of the team’s veterans to prepare for the hype that CSA Nationals brings and to keep their nerves in check.

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Despite the significance of the games this weekend, the team remains focused on the things it can control — namely playing one game at a time. “I think our goal is the game that’s in front of us,� coach Mike McLaughlin said. “Our goals are to compete, and hopefully, we do enough to give ourselves a chance.�

Although Penn retains sole possession of second place in the Ivy League, in order to catch the first-place Tigers, the Red and Blue will need help from another member of the Ancient Eight.

Because the Quakers are two games out of first place, Penn needs the Tigers to do something they haven’t done since the end of 2013-14: lose.

Nevertheless, sophomore forward Sydney Stipanovich echoed her coach’s sentiments about concentrating on the game at hand. “We are just really focusing on us,� Stipanovich said. “We have to play the Penn way.�

And for the Quakers, playing “the Penn way� means getting everybody involved in the game on both ends of the floor. Offensively, when the team has scored more than 60 points under McLaughlin, it is 56-9, including 29-straight regular season wins.

Defense has proved equally important, as the Quakers are 16-53 when their opponents score more than 60 points.

One player that has blossomed both offensively and defensively this season is freshman forward Michelle Nwokedi. After recently earning the starting job, Nwokedi’s numbers have been off the charts, leading the team in scoring for the past four games.

This week, she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the fourth time this season and second consecutive week.

Stipanovich praised Nwokedi along with the Quakers’ pair of freshman guards ­— Beth Brzozowski and Anna Ross — for their hard work and quick transition to the faster pace of college play.

HOLDEN MCGINNIS | SPORTS EDITOR If Penn women’s basketball hopes to repeat its success from last season, it will rely heavily on star forward Sydney Stipanovich in order to catch No. 16 Princeton.

“When they came in, we all knew they were great players, and they have adjusted really quickly,� the sophomore said. “They are helping us out a lot, and we are really proud of them.�

McLaughlin agreed with Stipanovch and recognized the importance of continued good play from the freshmen moving forward in to the second half of Ivy play. “They put in the time,� he said. “They have gotten opportunities, and they seized the opportunity.�

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Dartmouth, two teams that will be gunning for revenge, the Quakers know they will face stiff competition, but they are ready for a battle. “We know what to expect,�

Stipanovich said. “They are going to play a hard 40 minutes, and we have to outplay them for those 40 minutes.�

If the Red and Blue are able to sweep the weekend, it will mark their third straight winning season — just another clue that history might be well on its way to repeating itself.

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Time for a change of scenery

M. HOOPS | Quakers embark on road stand THOMAS MUNSON Associate Sports Editor FRIDAY

Harvard (17-5, 7-1 Ivy) 7 p.m.

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Heading into a four-game road streak against a slew of Ivy foes, Penn men’s basketball — owner of the longest active losing streak in the Ivy League — is hoping a change of scenery will improve its fortunes.

While a loss to Yale last weekend was not unexpected, a 75-48 point loss is always hard to chew, and a defeat at the hands of cellar-dwelling Brown the next day did not ease the Quakers’ pain.

Since its thrilling victory over Cornell on Feb. 6, the Red and Blue

(7-14, 2-5 Ivy) has gone flat from the field, failing to shoot above 35.6 percent from the floor in any of their last three matchups.

With Harvard on the horizon, the obstacles aren’t getting any smaller for a Penn squad that is sinking into the depths of the league standings.

But the Quakers are staying tough and digging deep to keep a positive outlook on the future.

“It’s funny, I was asked this question by a group of eight-year-old girls,” senior forward Greg Louis responded to the question of how the team is pushing through with Penn out of the league title conversation.

“And I’m like, ‘What do you mean it’s out of reach?’” Louis joked before telling the girls that “when I play I play for my teammates.”

Louis has had time to reflect over his four years, and he spoke with maturity as he gets ready to play out the end of his final season.

“Being a senior now, perspective is a little bit different. The dream of playing ball as a career, you realize that that’s not for everyone,” he said before going back to discussing the relationship he has with the current group of Quakers.

“It’s just beautiful. It’s nice to

have people to come to when things aren’t going well in life. These are my brothers, and we’ll be friends for life hopefully.”

Louis is able to fondly speak about this season because the atmosphere has been incredibly positive despite the ups and downs.

“This year, this entire team has been really really focused,” he added.

“Last year was rough, but from day one we’ve had a lot of great energy from the freshmen and focus from the coaches and guys just bought in.”

If the Quakers are to pull out a win Friday night in Cambridge, it will surely be on the heels of freshman production and Louis’s aggression on the boars. Coach Jerome Allen stressed the need to dominate Harvard down low as an integral part of Penn’s game plan.

“Having five guys locked in to every segment,” Allen said of the keys to the game. “Rebound the ball.

Keep them out of the paint. Keep them off the offensive glass and kinda manage their transition looks.”

Allen also noted that he won’t be changing much for Friday’s matchup despite Harvard’s staunch backcourt.

“Our game plan will pretty much be the system, not only what it was

THE BUZZ: FEATURE

Bagnoli in talks with Columbia?

STEVEN TYDINGS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Long-time Penn football coach Al Bagnoli retired at the end of the 2014 season, ending his 23-year tenure as the winningest coach in Penn history.

But he may not be done just yet.

Bagnoli, 62, had spoken about moving into a role within the Penn Athletics administration after retirement.

However, according to Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he is now in talks to take over as Columbia’s head coach. The Lions are going through a rough stretch, having lost their last 21 straight games dating back to the 2012 season. But Columbia’s program came under fire for its struggles outside of wins and losses over the last few seasons.

The Lions received negative national attention in 2013 after it was publicly revealed that many of the team’s athletes had posted racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic tweets.

After the 2014 season, embattled coach Pete Mangurian resignedshortly after reports said he had physically abused players and forced players to play with concussions.

Bagnoli, on the other hand, has seen success wherever he has been in his career. In his 33 years as a coach at Union and Penn, he had only two

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But coach Karin Corbett has been around the block, and she knows how to manage her athletes’ goals.

“It’s not about defending anything,” Corbett said. “It’s about going out and taking it, and that’s what we’ve been saying since day one.”

And this year, the team’s definition of “taking it” may expand well past the confines of the Ancient Eight. “ We’re pu rsu i ng bigger things this year,” senior Tory Bensen said. “We have our eyes on a national title, not just another Ivy League championship.”

These goals may seem lofty, but on paper, the Red and Blue can make some pretty legitimate arguments to back up their claims.

The Qua kers have been ranked No. 14 in the nation in the preseason coaches’ poll, tops in the Ivy League, just ahead of No. 15 Princeton and certainly amongst the nation’s elite teams.

But Penn’s preseason resume extends well past rankings, as the program returns with almost all of its most significant contributors from last year.

Nowhere is t h is more noticeable than on the backline, featuring reigning Ivy

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Former Penn football coach Al Bagnoli who retired from the Quakers after the 2014 season is said to be in conversation to take over Columbia’s football program.

losing seasons: his final two years.

The longtime Penn coach dominated Columbia, only losing to the Lions twice during his time with the Red and Blue while winning his last 18 meetings with the Light Blue.

The current talks with Columbia would come as a significant surprise to many after Bagnoli announced his retirement following the 2014 season.

Each of the other Ivy League schools

honored the Penn coach during road games while his players talked about sending him out on top.

The Quakers won his last game against Cornell in November after which long-time assistant coach Ray Priore took over Bagnoli’s job.

“I’ve been blessed to have a lot of good moments, and it’s been a tremendous 23 years,” he said just prior to his final game.

Defensive Player of the Year and preseason All-American selection Meg Markham along with two fellow senior running mates — defense Lydia Miller and goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson.

“We were pretty strong last year, and yes, we have a lot of experience this year,” Miller said. “But we cannot be complacent, and we need to push forward.”

The Quakers have been seen as a defensively-minded squad throughout their run, but they are no slouches on offense either. And this year, with upand-comers like junior attack Iris Williamson joining the ranks of established threats like Bensen and junior midfield Nina Corcoran, the Red and Blue may be more offensively potent than ever.

“We’re really trying to start from the bottom with our attack and become a goal-scoring powerhouse nationally,” Bensen said. “It’s about having depth across our attack and midfield so that we can all create.”

So the Quakers’ ambitious long-term aspirations may very well be realistic, but where do they even start?

Well, they will face an immediate challenge from the Blue Hens (2-0), who demolished a formidable Georgetown team over the weekend.

“They have a couple weeks on us and a couple games on us,

so we’ve gotta come ready to play,” Corbett said.

The number on the mind of every Penn fan this season is nine, but there is only one way for the Quakers to get there — one game at a time.

And Saturday is the first.

the first time we played them, but what it’s been about throughout all year,” he said.

It should be noted that the first time the two faced off this season, Penn was dealt a crushing 65-38 defeat. The loss surely exposed holes in Allen’s game plan, and the Red and Blue will need to change something if they hope to avoid replicating January’s home loss to the Crimson (17-5, 7-1).

If the Quakers can make it past Harvard with their heads held high, there is a reward waiting in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday in the form of a rematch with lowly Dartmouth (9-13, 2-6).

Allen, however, is solely focused on Harvard, and rightly so.

“We haven’t really talked about Saturday night,” Allen said. “Our sole focus has been on the next challenge ahead with the appreciation that from a coaching standpoint that you have to prepare these guys for 80 minutes.”

Harvard is not the juggernaut it was last year when it won a game in the NCAA tournament, but with KATIE ZHAO | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER that being said, Penn will have to be firing on all cylinders to take down Senior forward Greg Louis looks to to embark on the final chapter of his career at Penn when he leads the Quakers against first-place Harvard on Friday. the Ivy League giant Friday night.

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“I spent all summer debating [could] I keep doing both,” Celata said. “And I think I would have been upset with myself if I hadn’t taken the chance to see where this could have gone.”

Celata elected to drop squash for the 2014-15 season, allowing her to focus on running. Squash training did not share much overlap with track training because it mostly focused on technique. So far, Celata has seen her dedication to track pay dividends.

“I’m surprised … I’ve really developed aerobically as a runner,” Celata said.

Celata continues to post impressive times this season, such as her 2:09.05 in the 800-meter

at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Feb. 14.

“She doesn’t have a traditional ascent,” Hewitt said. “There’s a newness to it for her. She was a good half-miler in high school, but certainly not at the level she is at right now.

“There’s a joy [with which] she goes about doing things. She loves to work hard and challenge herself. The cool thing is, she stepped into being a leader and [is] rallying kids up.”

Martin agrees that Celata has exceptional racing instincts, and is consistent in all of her races.

“She works unbelievably hard in practice, is super encouraging, and the entire team loves her,” Martin said. “And those are the kinds of athletes you dream

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“She has a positive attitude that she brings every day, and that’s difficult to do, but she gets excited at the idea of finding out how good she is. And I think for most athletes, that’s a pretty scary thought.”

Celata tends to agree. Like her coaches, she understands the value of the hard work that ended up getting her on the track team in the first place.

“I like to think the fact that I worked so hard to get onto the team in the first place speaks for itself and how much I want to put into this, and the fact that I would want to dedicate myself to it,” she said. “It wasn’t about me not wanting to play squash anymore, it was just about wanting to see where I could go with running.”

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015

CELATA FINDS her lane JACOB ADLER Sports Reporter

Some people fear knowing their limits. Carey Celata welcomes them.

In her second season on the women’s track and field team and her first since leaving the women’s squash program, the redshirt junior has had a wildly successful indoor season.

With her focus set solely on running for Penn for the first time in her college career, the Philadelphia native has excelled for the Quakers.

Last weekend, Celata posted a time in the 800-meter that is the fourth-best in the Ivy League and 69th-best in the NCAA. Earlier in the month, she also came through with a 1000-meter clip that is the second-best indoor time in school history.

Originally recruited by the Red and Blue to play squash, Celata has taken an unusual path towards becoming a star runner for the Quakers. She ran track for coach Rob Hewitt at Germantown Friends School while also playing squash.

“She ran cross-country her junior and senior years for us, ran spring track all four years in high school,” Hewitt said of Celata’s time in high school.

“And towards the later stages of her high school career, she did her best to stay fit during squash.”

While two-sport athletes are rare at Penn, Celata approached track and cross country head coach Steve Dolan and assistant coach Robin Martin

about walking onto the track team when she was a freshman. Given that she wasn’t fast enough and could only dedicate three months to track per year, the two coaches declined.

“In the events that we do, to train for [only] two-and-a-half months, it just wouldn’t work,” Martin said.

“For some reason, it really hit me hard, a surprising amount,” Celata said of her rejection. “I hadn’t expected to miss running so much when I came to college, but I definitely did, and I was taken aback at not being able to run.”

Celata turned back to Hewitt and the coaching staff at Germantown Friends who trained her, in hopes of improving her times so she could walk onto the team as a sophomore.

By the time she returned for her second year at Penn, Celata was fast enough for Dolan and Martin. She received an invitation to join the team, participating in both squash and outdoor track in 2013-14.

Based on the success she had during what she described as an “amazing track season,” Celata then faced the difficult decision of whether to continue to participate in both sports or to dedicate herself to running. “[Squash] was a big part of her life, and it was really, really difficult,” Martin said. “We were prepared to go another two seasons with her doing squash and track … but she just chose track.”

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Quakers set to open up quest for nine W. LACROSSE | Penn

to take on Delaware

COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

The three-peat: the oftcited and highly coveted signifier of a bona fide dynasty, a feat accomplished by so few in the arena of American athletics. Michael Jordan did it. So did the Lakers and Yankees of the turn of the century. But not many others.

Most programs, collegiate or professional, would give just about anything to achieve a three-peat, but to Penn women’s lacrosse, it’s simply no big deal.

This year, the Quakers are going for an unheard-of

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three-times-three-peat.

Winners of the past eight Ivy League regular season championships, the Red and Blue will begin their quest for their ninth-straight title this Saturday, opening their season on the road against Delaware.

The prospect of defending their eight straight titles, on the surface, seems like it would be pretty intimidating. After all, championships aren’t just valued by the program — they’re expected.

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Ivy play continues for Red and Blue W.HOOPS |Penn hosts

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New England rivals

Harvard (10-12, 3-5 Ivy)

ANNA DYER

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Going into its season opener at Delaware, Penn women’s lacrosse features a strong, veteran defense backed up by senior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson.

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They say history has a tendency to repeat itself. Hopefully for Penn women’s hoops, this will hold true.

On Friday and Saturday, the Red and Blue (14-7, 5-2 Ivy) will indeed try to repeat history as they take on Harvard and Dartmouth for the second time this season.

When the Quakers traveled North to take on the Crimson (1012, 3-5) and the Big Green (11-11, 2-6) earlier in the year, they emerged from the grueling road

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trip with two victories.

This weekend at the Palestra, the Red and Blue will attempt to notch two more W’s — wins that are essential if they want to keep pace with undefeated No. 16 Princeton in the Ivy League race.

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